IKO - M81 & M82 LRGB+Ha - Processing Competition Winners!

[Grant]

Thanks everybody who took part in this competition - this one was even closer than usual! I particularly enjoyed seeing what you all achieved with the data as M81/M82 are particularly problematic for me so I will be having a good read through of all the tips and processes used to try and improve my own processing.

You can see all the entries here, the data is still available here if you want to have a play.

The winners are:

Winner - bdlbug

Runner Up - Xiga

Runner Up - Matt Baker

Thanks everybody for entering and well done to the winners.

We have a few more releases in the pipeline 🙂

[bdlbug]

Thank you - I am so pleased to have been selected as the winning entry for this competition.
Big thank you to FLO/IKO and judges for providing such great image data and setting up the releases and managing the competition.

I can see why Grant said it was a close run thing as the runners up are amazing , so congratulations to @Xiga and @matt_baker

I have been imaging for nearly 10 years and much of my learning has come from the SGL forum,  the breadth of expertise that is available here is truely global.

Thanks again

Bryan

[happy-kat]

Well done to the winners and all for sharing their processes, another great challenge.

[wimvb]

Congratulations, winners. Well done!

[tomato]

Congrats to the winners, and I really enjoyed the 'Pop Art' debate that the entries prompted.

[Chris]

Well done Bryan, Xiga and Matt. Brilliant! 

[Xiga]

Congratulations to Bryan and Matt, top work guys! 

And thanks again to IKI and FLO for another great data set and challenge. 

[matt_baker]

Congrats, guys!

Always a pleasure to work with such good data sets from IKI

[alacant]

Many congratulations to the worthy winners and a big thanks to everyone else for entering.

 

[The Lazy Astronomer]

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to FLO and IKI for giving us all something to do throughout the extremely clouded out summer nights!

[Spikey]

Well deserved winners, a very difficult image to process. IKI has been a bit of a Mojo saver for me after years of weather, time and kit restrictions.